Other Expeditions Highlighting WHOI Research

R/V Thomas G. ThompsonNovember 5 - December 17, 201114 scientists, 14 engineers, and 21 crew will sail to the Western Pacific Ocean near 20°N, 160°E to measure the magnetism, bathymetry, gravity, and structure of the Jurassic seafloor to investigate the history of the Earth's geomagnetic field. Maurice Tivey of the Geology and Geophysics Department is co-chief scientist on this cruise.

NOAA's Ocean ExplorerOctober 14 – November 4, 2010This is the fourth cruise in a four-year project to discover and characterize deep-water coral communities in the Gulf of Mexico, to conduct a variety of experiments and analyses that will help us to predict where other communities will be found, and to understand why we find them where we do.

NOAA's Ocean ExplorerFebruary 24 - March 17, 2010A diverse team of scientists will be tackling questions about strange new biological life forms, communities, and ecosystems far from the sunlit surface at the Chilean Triple Junction.

National Oceanography CentreJanuary 7 - February 21, 2010This expedition will explore areas of the deep seabed of the Southern Ocean to locate and investigate hot water vents (hydrothermal vents) and cold seeps.

University of WashingtonJuly 22 - July 31, 2008 The primary purpose of the cruise is to create seafloor maps of two areas on the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate that are within the National Science Foundation’s Ocean Observatories Initiative.

NOAA's Ocean ExplorerSeptember 27 - October 16, 2007
This expedition takes you to unexplored waters south of the Philippine
Islands, in search of the strange, and possibly unknown, fishes,
jellyfish, squids and shrimp that live in the dark deep waters of the
Celebes Sea.

NOAA's Ocean ExplorerJuly 28 - August 16, 2007The New Zealand American Submarine Ring of Fire 2007 expedition explored Brothers submarine volcano, a site of vigorous geothermal
activity north of New Zealand along the Kermadec Arc. This expedition marked the most comprehensive exploration of this type of submarine volcano to date.

NOAA's Ocean ExplorerJune 25 - July 4, 2006A Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and Hellenic Center for Marine
Research led team of engineers, geologists, geochemists,
archaeologists, and historians embarked on the Greek research vessel
Aegaeo to explore deep sites within Greek national waters.

NOAA's Ocean ExplorerJuly 17 - August 4, 2005This expedition
will explore the Lost City Hydrothermal Field (LCHF) 24-hours a day for 10 days using IFE's Remotely Operated
Vehicles (ROV's) Argus and Hercules and immediately transmitting
that data to scientists on-shore.

NOAA's Ocean ExplorerJuly 11 - July 19, 2003With the help of the Alvin submersible, a
multidisciplinary team of scientists and educators visited several
little known seamounts in the North Atlantic, along with at least one
previously unexplored seamount, to study various aspects of deep-sea
octocorals and other organisms living on and around the seamounts.

NOAA's Ocean ExplorerAugust 27 - September 15, 2002Hudson Canyon Expedition
2002 allowed investigators from four academic insitutions and two
governmental agencies to map a significant portion of the slope and
rise to the east and west of the Hudson Canyon.

NOAA's Ocean ExplorerJune 28 - July 11, July 23 - August 5, 2002An interdisciplinary
exploration team of U.S. and Canadian scientists used new seafloor
mapping systems, an autonomous vehicle, and a remotely operated vehicle
to investigate the birth of new ocean crust off the coast of western
North America.

University of DelawareJanuary 13 - January 19, 2000
On this expedition, scientists descended 2.4 kilometers (1.5 miles) to the seafloor aboard the deep-sea sub Alvin to explore hydrothermal
vents in the Sea of Cortés off the west coast of Mexico.

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